Chris Berube
How to make an audio doc from soup to nuts
06/22/2025 @ 1:00pm - 3:00pm EST
Congratulations! Your pitch was greenlit by your favorite show! Your dream of making a longform narrative podcast or radio documentary...
There’s a recipe for audio storytelling. Host intro, the anecdotal lede, then the spinach-y middle of the sandwich with the experts, facts and larger context stuffed in. At the end, you return to the character you visited at the start, do your sign-off cue and you’re out.
It doesn’t have to be like this. In this class, A.C. Valdez an award-winning producer now at The Atlantic will help you to step outside of that routine to glam up your narrative nonfiction writing. He’ll take you inside an editor’s brain, walk you through real world examples of non-traditonal storytelling structure, and ultimately teach you what you can get away with while still doing journalism.
You will be emailed a link to the workshop two hours before it begins.